Sutopo Purwo Nugroho ("Pak Topo"), Indonesia's disaster spokesman, died on July 7th, aged 49. Three times the government asked him and he turned the job down, not wanting to become a mouthpiece for them; but in the end they pressed him, and in 2010 Sutopo Purwo Nugroho became the new spokesman for Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB). Almost his first job was to persuade 350,000 people to move away from Mount Merapi on the island of Java. The great, stately, active volcano had been monitored for a long time.
蘇托波·普沃·努格羅荷是印尼的災(zāi)難新聞發(fā)言人，他于7月7日去世，享年49歲。政府曾經(jīng)三次請(qǐng)他拒絕這份工作，不想他成為政府的代言人。但是政府最后征用了他，而且在2010年，蘇托波·普沃·努格羅荷成為了印尼國(guó)家減災(zāi)署的新發(fā)言人。他的第一份工作幾乎是說(shuō)服35萬(wàn)人離開(kāi)爪哇島上的默拉皮火山。這座雄偉壯觀的活火山已被監(jiān)測(cè)了很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間。
People believed it hosted a sultanate of sometimes peevish spirits who had to be soothed, not shunned, when they were angry. His job was to persuade the locals to forget that, and just leave. He gave the warning late on October 24th. By the evening of October 25th, when the mountain blew its top, the BNPB had overseen the evacuation of almost everyone. (The tight time-lapse was ideal; if he'd waited longer, the evacuees would have started to wander back.) He was there when grey ash started falling on the heads of the elderly villagers he was leading out.
人們認(rèn)為它招待著一個(gè)有時(shí)脾氣暴躁的蘇丹人，當(dāng)他們生氣時(shí)，必須安撫他們，而不是避開(kāi)他們。他的工作是說(shuō)服當(dāng)?shù)厝送涍@件事情，離開(kāi)就好。他在10月24日晚些時(shí)候發(fā)出了警告。到10月25日晚上，當(dāng)火山爆發(fā)的時(shí)候，印尼國(guó)家減災(zāi)署幾乎監(jiān)督了所有人的疏散。緊湊的時(shí)間間隔是理想的；如果他等更久的話，疏散的人們就會(huì)開(kāi)始往回走。當(dāng)灰開(kāi)始落在他帶領(lǐng)出來(lái)的老年村民的頭上時(shí)，他就在那里。
The sight made him cry. Worse, though, was the fact that more than 350 people ignored his warnings, preferring to stay on the right side of the spirits. Before he arrived at the agency, forecasts of natural disasters were a fairly random occurrence. Often they were missed, or the government panicked without reason, dragging along a public panicked by hoaxes posted online.
這一幕讓他哭了。但是，更糟的是，超過(guò)350人忽略了他的警告，他們選擇留在精神的正確的一邊。在他來(lái)到該機(jī)構(gòu)之前，對(duì)自然災(zāi)害的預(yù)測(cè)是相當(dāng)隨機(jī)的。他們經(jīng)常失手，或者政府毫無(wú)理由地驚慌失措，拖著被網(wǎng)上發(fā)布的騙局嚇壞的公眾。
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